Chapter 130

Puck, puck, puck, puck, puck!
-Cure…
The blue ogre immediately shook its head. Karot walked over to the ogre next to him and began swinging his staff again.
“Wait, I’m not getting a message?
Watching Karotte’s staff attack, Ming Hu had a sudden thought and quickly checked the information on the completed Ogre Power Gauntlet.
“…didn’t go up.
He thought that since it was his pet, it would increase his strength even if Karot caught it, but contrary to his expectations, it did not. Ming Hu looked at Karot and the ogre again and thought.
‘I’ll have to catch it myself.
With that thought, Ming Hu pushed his way through the bushes toward Karot and the ogre. As he approached, Ming Hu opened the pet window and changed Karot’s mode from automatic to standby.
Puck!
-Ku…huh?
When you switched to standby mode, the staff-wielding Karot stopped moving. Later, as he approached the blue ogre, Ming Hu used Blood Blast.
[You have caught the ogre].
.
.
[The completed Ogre Power Gauntlet’s options increase Strength by 2].
The ogres fell, and a message appeared.
“I’ll have to catch it myself.
Ming Hu looked at the message with a wistful expression and began to pick up the items the ogres had dropped.
-You have mastered Ogre’s Tendons.
-You have mastered Ogre’s Tendons.
“I see. The only thing skin gives you is tendons.”
Because of the different skin, Ming Hu thought that something else would come out. But all that came out were tendons, even though he’d caught dozens of them on the way down the mountain. Ming Hu opened the pet window, changed Karot’s mode from standby to automatic, and started walking toward the gate.
The ogres guarding the gates were all dead, so there was not a single ant in front of the gates. Ming Hu walked through the gates and into the city without any inhibitions.
“Wow, they farm.
As Ming Hu entered the city, he looked at the enormous size of the rice paddies and fields in front of him and thought to himself. It was amazing that they lived in a city, but it was even more amazing that they farmed. No, he couldn’t imagine ogres farming.
“By the way, I don’t see any of them.
He had expected to be swarmed as soon as he entered, but contrary to his expectations, there were no ogres in sight. Ming Hu looked off into the distance at the rows of buildings at the far end of the rice fields.
“I’ll go over there and it’ll come out.
If they went to the building, they would find the ogre. Ming Hu began to walk with Karotte through the giant crops.
Jab!
Reaching the end of a row of buildings, Ming Hu paused and peeked through the crops to check his surroundings.
Thump! Thump!
As Ming Hu had predicted, there were ogres roaming around the building, but when he saw them, he could only stare at them blankly.
-Currrrrr!
-Woof!
“Ma’am?
As they walked, the two ogres greeted each other and stopped to chat. Even though they were clearly ogres, their vibe was reminiscent of the neighborhood lady. It wasn’t just that.
“Drunk?
An ogre with a keg in one hand staggered this way and that, his body swaying as he walked. The ogres walking around him glared at him. He couldn’t make out their eyes, but they certainly weren’t good ones.
“You look like a human.
I didn’t live in the city for nothing.
Pooh-pooh!
That was the moment.
The sound of horns began to echo around me.
whisk whisk whisk whisk
“…?
The horn sounded, and the ogres around them, including the old lady ogre, the drunken ogre, and others who had been talking, quickly fell to the ground. Ming Hu looked at the prostrate ogres with a puzzled expression.
Dahlgrock Dahlgrock
As Ming Hu stared at the ogres in wonder, the sound of a carriage caught his ear. Ming Hu quickly looked toward the source.
“What the hell is that?
He hadn’t heard wrong, the carriage was definitely approaching. Ming Hu frowned slightly and looked at the ogre in the carriage.
“Are there aristocrats?
The clothes of the ogre in the carriage were gorgeous. It was nothing compared to the clothes of the nobles in the imperial palace.
Dahlgrock… Dalgrak.
Soon the carriage passed, and the prostrate ogres got up and went their separate ways. As Ming Hu watched the ogres bustle and talk again, he remembered the noble ogre who had disappeared in the carriage earlier.
“He definitely had yellow skin.
The skin of the noble ogre that disappeared in the carriage was neither red nor blue. The noble ogre definitely had yellow skin.
“What is…?
Red skin was immune to physical attacks and blue skin was immune to magic attacks. There had to be something about yellow skin, too. But no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t figure it out, and Ming Hu turned his attention back to the ogres around him.
“Lots of blue ogres.
Fortunately, most of the ogres around him had blue skin. Ming Hu looked at Karot and said.
“Kill only the red ones.”
-Okay.
Jumbled
After hearing Karot’s answer, Ming Hu emerged from the crops.
-Curr? Currrrrrrrr!
One of the ogres looked at Ming Hu, shook his head, and then let out a roar. The ogres who heard the roar turned their attention to Ming Hu.
-Currrrrrr!
-Currrrrrr!
The ogres began to charge toward Ming Hu. Ming Hu saw the ogres charging at him, and he used Blood Blast first.
“I love the blood explosions.
Ming Hu thought as he watched the blue ogres fall.
-Uh.
-Cure…
[You have caught the ogre].
[The completed Ogre Power Gauntlet’s options increase Strength by 2].
Ming Hu smiled at the messages that kept popping up as the ogres fell, and began to run toward them again.
-Currrrrrrr!
A red ogre stood in Ming Hu’s way, not a soldier ogre, and the ogre’s hands held nothing. Of course, it didn’t matter if it had a weapon or not. Ming Hu dodged the ogre’s fist and walked right past it. It wasn’t an ogre he could catch anyway, and behind him was Karot.
Whip
Karot hurled a black orb at the red ogre, who quickly turned around as Ming Hu passed by.
Poof! Poof! Poof!
-Uh.
Once the Red Ogre was down, Karot quickly looked around for another one and began to attack.
“Flip the ground!”
-Courtesy!
-Currrrrr!
Ming Hu glanced at the ogres in the air and quickly looked around. There were no more blue ogres in sight. Only the red ogres remained.
-You have mastered Ogre’s Tendons.
-You have mastered Ogre’s Tendons.
When Ming Hu realized that only the red ogres were left, he began to pick up the dropped items as the red ogres charged toward Karot. That’s when it happened. As Ming Hu was picking up items, a series of messages began to appear.
[User ‘Soma’ was attacked by user ‘Rich Karot’].
[Enter hostile status with user ‘Soma’].
[Killing a hostile user in a preemptive strike does not increase your offender count].
[Reduces death penalty by 50% if killed by a preemptive strike].
[Rich Karotte has died].
“What?
* * * * *
After explaining the situation to Venom, Jin Hyuk left the Guild House and traveled to Dorden to complete the quest. Upon arriving in Dorden, Jin Hyuk immediately exited Dorden and began walking along the mountain range.
“Maybe this time I can break it.
After walking along the mountain range for a while, Jin Hyuk saw a red rock ahead of him and thought, “This is the third time I’ve tried this challenge.” He started to climb up the valley past the red rock, thinking that he could break through this time. Thinking that this time he would be able to break through, Jinhyuk began to climb up the valley past the red rocks.
Jab!
Reaching the summit a short time later, Jin Hyuk muttered to himself as he saw the massive city of ogres come into view.
“I must wake up…”
After muttering that, Jin Hyuk immediately began to walk down the mountain.
“That’s weird…
As Jin Hyuk walked down the mountain, he realized something was wrong.
“Why don’t I see it?
I couldn’t see the guys I was supposed to see on the way down. In the past, I’d run into them about five times when I came this far down. But now, there was not a single one. Shaking his head, Jin Hyuk continued to descend the mountain, as the situation was so different from when he had come before.
“…what is it?
After descending the mountain and arriving at the gate, Qin Hyuk frowned at the gate. Something was off. The ogres that were supposed to be guarding the gates were nowhere to be seen.
Jumbled
Once through the gate, Jin Hyuk quickly made his way through the crops. Hiding in the crops, Jin Hyuk made his way through the crops to the inside.
‘No way. It’s been found.’
You can call it luck that you didn’t run into any ogres on your way down the mountain, but you can’t call it luck that there weren’t any ogres guarding the gates. Someone must have caught it.
That was the moment.
Coooorrrrr!
Poof! Poof! Poof!
The roar of an ogre and the sound of a thunderous explosion reached Jin Hyuk’s ears. He quickly moved toward the sound. After a while, he reached the end of the field and peeked through the crops to see what was going on.
“What? Rich?
It was definitely Lich. Richie was holding the ogre.
“Richie’s in!
The moment he saw Richie, Jin Hyuk could guess why the gates were empty.
‘By the way, Richa. Windfall.’
Jin Hyuk looked at Richie with a smile, then stomped the ground and ran toward him. Richie’s attention was focused on the ogre. It wouldn’t recognize him. Of course, it didn’t matter if it did.
Yikes!
Arriving behind Li Qiye, Jin Hyuk quickly swung his sword.
[You attacked user ‘Minghu”s pet ‘Lich Karot’].
[Enter hostile status with user ‘Minghu’].
“…Huh?”
Jin-Hyeok can’t help but panic at the message that appears when he attacks Richie.
“Pet? What the…
Qin Hyuk quickly looked around with a look of disbelief on his face, and he could see the user staring at him blankly. Seeing the user’s blank gaze, Qin Hyuk let out a short sigh and thought, “I’m sorry.
‘Ritchie… was a real pet?
I didn’t believe it when I saw the message, but when I saw the user’s gaze and reaction, I couldn’t help but believe it.
“…”
“…”
Silence began to settle in.